If you are a small company and give or sell gift vouchers (also known as gift certificates) to your customers, chances are that you do not have an integrated solution for gift cards that can be very expensive.

Therefore, if you offer gift certificates to your customers, you need a way to follow, especially for reasons of fraud and accounting. See why this is necessary:

* You must customers against fraud by reprinting a voucher to help your company avoid losing money.
* When customers can redeem a portion of the value of the certificate, you need to know how much remains available to buy.
* You should also know that the certificates have been paid if you want to evaluate the performance of its certification program.
* You may also be more subtle understanding of the coupon, it was sold an interest in this part of the promotion, etc.
Keep track of gift vouchers with a control code

In this monitoring system that each certificate a unique number, the certificate has the occasion demands. are in fact able to identify a certificate, the serial number must be unique. A random number is also important because people do not allow the reprinting of a certificate and a text formatting program to change your serial number so it looks like valid news. Indeed, to reduce the risk of people guessing a valid code, you can enter letters and special characters in the serial number.

How to generate coupon codes

You can use any software or code generator to generate the same code. In any case, be sure to keep a register of certificates in use. You can use Microsoft Excel or a spreadsheet to maintain such a list. You must ensure that customers do not see how a list, they do not know the current figures. In this file, you can specify the certificate serial number, issue date, the value of the certificate, a refund of the amount, and follow all other relevant information, such as the promotion is part of the certificate, if it sells or the client, etc…

A simpler way: the generation of bar codes for gift certificates

If you keep track of how simple and automated gift certificates that you want to print a bar code can be embedded on all gift certificates too well with the POS software. Contact your provider of POS software to see if you can provide this integration.

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